February 23, New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking cancellation of offline exams for class X & XII which is to be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) & all state boards.
The bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar dismissed the plea filed to cancel offline board exams for Class 10 and Class 12, saying, “entertaining such petitions will cause more confusion in the system. This cannot become the norm. Such petitions give false hope to students. They will be misled by such petitions.”
Earlier, the students had approached the supreme court on seeking intervention against the board exams scheduled to be conducted by the CBSE, ICSE, NIOS & other state boards.
The petition was filed by child rights activist Anubha Shrivastava Sahai seeking directions to the State Boards, CBSE, ICSE, NIOS who are going to conduct board exams for X & XII in offline mode to pass a notification regarding alternate arrangement of assessment instead of offline exams.
